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ALT LA: alternative art spaces that shaped Los Angeles, 1964-1978

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Názov: ALT LA: alternative art spaces that shaped Los Angeles, 1964-1978
Autori: Guilford, Lauren Taylor (author)
Informácie o vydavateľovi: University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL), 2022.
Rok vydania: 2022
Predmety: Roski School of Art and Design (school), Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere (degree program), Master of Arts (degree)
Popis: This thesis focuses on the histories of creative practices bridging the rights movements and the visual arts in Los Angeles between 1964 and 1978. My research will foreground key social movements of the 1960s and 1970s in Los Angeles: the Black Arts Movement, the feminist movement, and the Chicano/a Movement. Situated within these historical movements, I will present three primary case studies of major alternative spaces founded by members of each of these rights movement communities: The Watts Towers Arts Center, The Woman?s Building, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). The artists and ideas that permeated alternative spaces in Los Angeles challenge conventional art history attached to the 1960s and 1970s. Alternative sites played a formative role in the development of performance, multimedia, body-oriented, and socially engaged practices, and were important sites of protest where artists advocated for the specific needs and demands of communities in Los Angeles. Largely dismissed by the mainstream art world, Black, female, and/or Chicanx artists during this period established necessary counter-institutions that reclaimed social and public spaces.
Druh dokumentu: Thesis
Jazyk: English
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-ouc111037682
Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi...........a6287ea1f4419af184627eb2828b4a98
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:This thesis focuses on the histories of creative practices bridging the rights movements and the visual arts in Los Angeles between 1964 and 1978. My research will foreground key social movements of the 1960s and 1970s in Los Angeles: the Black Arts Movement, the feminist movement, and the Chicano/a Movement. Situated within these historical movements, I will present three primary case studies of major alternative spaces founded by members of each of these rights movement communities: The Watts Towers Arts Center, The Woman?s Building, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). The artists and ideas that permeated alternative spaces in Los Angeles challenge conventional art history attached to the 1960s and 1970s. Alternative sites played a formative role in the development of performance, multimedia, body-oriented, and socially engaged practices, and were important sites of protest where artists advocated for the specific needs and demands of communities in Los Angeles. Largely dismissed by the mainstream art world, Black, female, and/or Chicanx artists during this period established necessary counter-institutions that reclaimed social and public spaces.
DOI:10.25549/usctheses-ouc111037682